Defines the path and required permissions for a specific subset of data
within a content provider. This element can be
specified multiple times to supply multiple paths.

attributes:

android:path

A complete URI path for a subset of content provider data.
Permission can be granted only to the particular data identified by this path.
When used to provide search suggestion content, it must be appended
with "/search_suggest_query".

android:pathPrefix

The initial part of a URI path for a subset of content provider data.
Permission can be granted to all data subsets with paths that share this initial part.

android:pathPattern

A complete URI path for a subset of content provider data,
but one that can use the following wildcards:

An asterisk ('*'). This matches a sequence of 0 to many occurrences of
the immediately preceding character.

A period followed by an asterisk (".*"). This matches any sequence of
0 or more characters.

Because '\' is used as an escape character when the string is read
from XML (before it is parsed as a pattern), you will need to double-escape.
For example, a literal '*' would be written as "\\*" and a
literal '\' would be written as "\\". This is basically
the same as what you would need to write if constructing the string in Java code.

The name of a permission that clients must have in order to read or write the
content provider's data. This attribute is a convenient way of setting a
single permission for both reading and writing. However, the
readPermission and
writePermission attributes take precedence
over this one.

android:readPermission

A permission that clients must have in order to query the content provider.

android:writePermission

A permission that clients must have in order to make changes to the data controlled by the content provider.